Word: unappealingness
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Political Pizazz. In many ways the most telling element of the first round campaign was the sharp decline and fall of Chaban, who had argued that he alone had the kind of political pizazz needed to stop Mitterrand. The flashy, thrice-wed former Resistance hero not only got the endorsement...
The action is a bit shaky at first. A drawn-out scene introducing a band of "shiftless and lazy" characters is relatively unappealing. But the entrance of the skeptical Bill Walker, played with comic gusto by Dan Beckhard, threatens to shake the charitable base of the conversion-oriented mission. Beckhard...
Jury selection has, in fact, become a well-developed legal art. The U.S. has been through a dozen years of sensational trials-Angela Davis, the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson, Jack Ruby -and jury fairness was almost never seriously challenged. The same should be true for Watergate. Columbia Constitutional Law Professor...
CHAMBER MUSIC has a bad name. It is traditionally awarded the dubious distinction of being the most unappealing of classical idioms. Its very mention brings to mind visions of bewigged, thoroughly antique gentlemen lulling their audiences to sleep with the sickly whine of their violins. The recent chamber music "revival...
Isabella is often viewed as a sympathetic, saintly heroine, but I find her preposterous and unappealing. One should recall that, in Shakespeare's time, an official betrothal was considered legally binding. But it is hard to accept Isabella's willingness to see her brother executed for seducing his unofficial fiancee...